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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:12 pm
 


Title: Endangered sage grouse to be protected by emergency order
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2013-09-17 18:01:25
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:12 pm
 


This kind of makes sense to me, really the only animal you can hunt with your shoe. Is that natural selection? Not sure.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:07 pm
 


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The sharp decline has been blamed on the destruction of its habitat by industry, especially the oil and gas industry.


heh, no. It's because they are an incredibly easy meal to catch.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:43 pm
 


Delwin Delwin:
This kind of makes sense to me, really the only animal you can hunt with your shoe. Is that natural selection? Not sure.

Are you thinking spruce grouse. Or fool hen. They are a different animal!


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:48 pm
 


Definitely Spruce Grouse, they are some dumb. Their defense mechanism seems to be to just crouch down, which may be effective in taller grass, but it seems as they don't know if they are in tall grass. Beautiful creatures to look at, but man are they stupid.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:53 pm
 


Don't know about tall grass? This is how most spruce grouse I have seen were situated.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:04 pm
 


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According to Environment Canada, fewer than 150 of the birds remain in the two Canadian provinces where they are found, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the bird’s population has fallen 98 per cent since 1988. The sharp decline has been blamed on the destruction of its habitat by industry, especially the oil and gas industry.

What habitat has been wiped out over 98% destroyed? Oil and Gas isn't very land use heavy.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:08 pm
 


Sure, that looks like where I found them too. My dad was an avid hunter, I am not, but I am confident you will not find a seasoned hunter who will express difficulty in catching them. Here is an arbitrary link to a completely non politicized site where a discussion on the subject takes place. I of course have empirical data on the subject which doesn't have much value on a forum. I assure you, I am a lover of animals and if anything can be done to save this beautiful species, I am all for it. However, I am of the opinion that this is more a result of their nature than our actions.

sorry for the link but any hunter in the area will tell you the same thing:

http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/sho ... rouse-Hunt


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:01 pm
 


Too bad hte feds had to be sued to do somethign about this, when they are obliggated under the Species at Risk Act to protect critically endangered species like this. Predicatbly the givernment trid to hide al the science under "cabinet secrecy" but the courts wouldn't grant it.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:05 pm
 


I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesnt afraid of anything.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:30 am
 


Around here we call our "grouse" Partridge and by the sounds of it they are as dumb as their cousins out west. Their defensive skill is no more than freezing on the spot, whether it be on the ground or in a tree. You can practically put the barrel to their head and pull the trigger.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:53 am
 


Regina Regina:
Around here we call our "grouse" Partridge and by the sounds of it they are as dumb as their cousins out west. Their defensive skill is no more than freezing on the spot, whether it be on the ground or in a tree. You can practically put the barrel to their head and pull the trigger.

In my experience it all depends on how heavily they are being gunned. In early season even ruffed grouse will sit and let you shoot them with a pellet gun. By the end of Nov. even spruce grouse are flying at the first sign of people. I have never hunted sage grouse. I think the name fool hen for spruce grouse comes mostly from them living too far north to be heavily hunted.


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